Speaking at her installation, she said: "Let us think what it might look like for us here in Kent, if the name of Jesus enabled us to be a unifying body.

"That instead of focusing on the things that separate us, we focused on the things that we share in common.

"What if we were to discover that God, through Jesus does indeed sneak out those great doors and is right there in the community with us, urging us to think of his justice, mercy and his compassion for the whole world. What if we were to recognise his presence as we seek to ensure that the resources we have been blessed with is not for amassing personal wealth but to be shared in such a way that our brothers and sisters in poverty is no longer in need?

The Bishop and Archbishop enter the cathedral Picture: Jim Drew

"We are deeply mistaken if the kind of relationship we seek with God is so personal and private that we exclude our brothers and sisters around us or indeed as we are in Kent, on the frontier if we exclude our brothers and sisters from another mother."